![]() ![]() He’s a porter who carts people up and down the mountain on a stool strapped to his back. The boy, Mansoor, is played by Sushant Singh Rajput, a reliably solid actor making his most in a badly written film, looking suitably overwhelmed at the possibility of romance. (I don’t mean to suggest this is any sort of intriguing role, it’s just nice to see him.) Kedarnath uses all Sooraj Barjatya tropes. This is another tired story about disapproving Hindu-Muslim parents tearing lovers apart, the only twist being that the pandit patriarch is played by Nitish Bhardwaj, Lord Aquaguard Krishna himself. This film claims to be about the Kedarnath floods of 2013, but the catastrophe serves as an afterthought, coming in at the very end of a 1980s-type star-crossed romantic melodrama. She is certainly atypical, though, and that may hold promise. She is fine when silent and sad, and, from time to time, displays an interesting awkwardness. The actors around her are markedly natural - Pooja Gor, playing her stern elder sister, is so damn real - while Khan is playacting. ![]() Talking nineteen to the dozen is tricky, and Khan isn’t spontaneous enough. Her character Mandakini is exaggeratedly feisty, the sort often played by Parineeti Chopra and Anushka Sharma, and, in another time, by Khan’s own eternally plucky mother, Amrita Singh. ![]()
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